António Ramos Rosa

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António Victor Ramos Rosa (born October 17, 1924 in Faro , Algarve , † September 23, 2013 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese poet , essayist and translator . He was one of the most important Portuguese poets of the 20th century.

Life

Rosa was born in Faro, where he also spent his youth. Since his youth he was enthusiastic about literature, especially poetry. In 1945 he came to Lisbon, where he joined an opposition youth group against the Salazar regime, which brought him to prison for some time, and in 1947 he returned to his homeland, Faro. He had worked as an office worker in Lisbon. During his stay in Faro he worked as a translator and again as an office worker and also taught Portuguese, French and Italian there. He has worked as a freelance writer in Lisbon since the 1960s, where he died in September 2013 at the age of 88 as a result of bacterial pneumonia.

Portugal's poet of the century

António Ramos Rosa has published over 50 volumes of poetry, was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature , and has won all the major contemporary literary prizes in Portugal. One sees in him a great natural poet from Portugal, to whom the elements - fire, water, air and earth - are most important. The question of the origin of all being also always preoccupied him in his literature. He was a co-founder of the literary magazines Árvore , Casseiopeia and Cadernos do Meio Dia . Countless publications in newspapers, magazines and anthologies at home and abroad are part of his work. A good ten books have been translated into French and five into Spanish. He made his debut as a poet and author in 1958 with the small volume O guito claro . In the literary group Poesia 61 he was a leading member. He was also able to publish many books as an essayist, but did not achieve the importance that he achieved as a poet.

Awards (selection)

Work (selection)

  • O guitar claro, 1958, poetry.
  • Viagem Atraves de uma nebulosa, 1960, poetry.
  • Voz Inicial, 1960, poetry.
  • Liberdade Livre, 1962, essays.
  • A constituicao do corpo, 1969, poetry.
  • Volante verde, 1986, poetry.
  • Acordes, 1989, poetry.
  • A parede Azul, 1991, essays.
  • O teu rosto, 1994, poetry.
  • Tres, 1995, poetry.
  • Nova Ficcao, 2000, poetry.
  • As palavras, 2001, essays.
  • Genese & Constelacoes, 2005, poetry.

translation

  • Genesis & Constellation. (Genese & Constellaçoes), poems. Edition Delta, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-927648-19-7 . (Portuguese, German)

swell

  • www.edition-delta.de/antonio-ramos-rosa.html
  • www.astormentas.com/biografia.aspx?t=autor&id=Ant%c3%b3nio%20Ramos%20Rosa
  • www.citi.pt/cultura/literatura/poesia/ramos_rosa/
  • www.poetryinternational.org/piw=cms/cms/cms-moduls/index.php?obj.-id=4644.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ António Ramos Rosa died at the age of 88
personal data
SURNAME Rosa, António Ramos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosa, António Victor Ramos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Faro , Algarve , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 2013
Place of death Lisbon